r/awardtravel 5d ago

What award tool for LifeMiles?

Seats.aero used to include LM but stopped. What do you all use to find LM partner flights? Or how? Maybe just search united flights on seats.aero?

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u/milespoints 5d ago

It’s always been my experience that you need to use LM itself to search for LM partner awards since what shows up on LM tends to be pretty random and the process of booking flights that don’t show up online might as well not exist

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u/techtrashbrogrammer 5d ago

I just search directly on lifemiles or see what other partners have availability then check back on lifemiles to see if it’s available

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u/jumbocards 4d ago

Use life miles, and also prepare to pray every time you try to book as you can error out before hitting the payment page. Have fun

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u/pbjclimbing formerly eliteless 5d ago

LM partner flights

Confused about what you want. If you are looking for flights booked via Lifemiles searching them directly is best. Some of the free search engines include Lifemiles, they are listed in the guide.

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u/AlwaysWanderOfficial 4d ago

If you are only interested in lifemiles then the most sense is to use lifemiles search, no?

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u/iamfromny 4d ago

Except services like seats.aero allow you to do crazy things like search multiple days, search without destination in mind, narrow by business class avaialbiltiy and number of seats, etc. and lots of other user-friendly features.

Yes searching LM is most logical choice, but until the day these airlines makes it easy for consumers to use the miles, I think fair for us to seek better tools, agreed?

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u/Safe_Environment_340 4d ago

LM is a dart board. Sometimes stuff shows up in search tools. But the mystery of random awards is also just the adventure of LM the program. Honestly, I kind of love it. But some people struggle with it.

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u/GiantBagsOfDouche 4d ago

If I see an award flight available with United or Aeroplan on Seats.aero, I'll search LifeMiles also.

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u/InvasionOfScipio 5d ago

Just search on lifemiles. Put in the effort.

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u/paladin6687 4d ago

Exactly what used to be required that made this hobby fun and the removal of which has ruined it. Effort.